openshift-nginx docker image running as non-root
Aleksandar Lazic
al-nginx at none.at
Fri May 6 12:10:39 UTC 2016
Am 05-05-2016 19:14, schrieb Paulo Leal:
> Hi,
>
> I added the lines to my dockerfile
>
> Run ...
> && chmod 777 /var/log/nginx /
>
> && rm -rf /var/log/nginx/error.log /
> && rm -rf /var/log/nginx/access.log
>
> It worked for me!
When you want to read the files you call
###
oc rsh <POD>
cat /var/log/nginx/error.log
###
or something similar, right.
Would it not be nicer to get it via
oc logs -f <ACCESS_LOGGING_POD>
oc logs -f <ERROR_LOGGING_POD>
I think for POC (Prove of concept) the local logs setup woks but when
you want more production readiness you should consider to log to a
syslog server. IMHO.
Maybe you can reuse the aggregating logs setup from openshift.
https://docs.openshift.org/latest/install_config/aggregate_logging.html
with
http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/in_syslog
or something similar.
Cheers Aleks
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Paulo Leal
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx at none.at>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Am 04-05-2016 23:50, schrieb Francis Daly:
>> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 06:25:01PM -0300, Paulo Leal wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Completely untested by me; and I've not used openshift or docker, but:
>>
>> I have been playing around with the
>> https://github.com/nginxinc/openshift-nginx dockerfile and trying to
>> find
>> a way to run run nginx as non-root with openshift/k8/docker.
>>
>> I am currently getting the error:
>> nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open()
>> "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
>>
>> That says that the user you run as cannot open that file.
>>
>> ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/nginx
>> ls -l /var/log/nginx/error.log
>>
>> You may need a "-Z" in there too, if you have some extra security
>> enabled.
>>
>> Does your user have permission to write the current error.log file;
>> or to create a new one? If not, do whatever it takes to make that
>> possible.
>>
>> You do mention some "chmod" commands below, but none that refer to
>> this
>> directory or file.
>
> In openshift you normally not know with which user your run.
>
> https://docs.openshift.org/latest/architecture/additional_concepts/authorization.html#scc-strategies
>
> I think the default is 'MustRunAsRange', this suggest this file.
>
> https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/blob/master/roles/openshift_master/templates/master.yaml.v1.j2#L177
>
> There is a solution to run for a dedicated user id.
>
> https://docs.openshift.org/latest/creating_images/guidelines.html#use-uid
>
> You should change the location of the pid file and you can use a syslog
> server for the logs. I have created a more or less ready to use
> solution.
>
> https://github.com/git001/nginx-osev3
>
> Please tell me if the solution is helpful for you.
>
> I can then make a pull request to the
> https://github.com/nginxinc/openshift-nginx .
>
>>> I have alredy added to my Dockerfile:
>>> Run ...
>>> && chmod 777 /etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
>>> && chmod 777 /var/run \
>>> && chmod 777 /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
>>
>> 777 is possibly excessive; but if it works for you, it works. If you
>> don't have "x" permissions on /etc/nginx/conf.d, though, you probably
>> won't be able to read the default.conf file within.
>>
>>> I also run bash on the container and was albe to "cat" the
>>> "default.conf"
>>> and the "nginx.conf" files.
>>
>> Do you do that as the same user/group that you run nginx as?
>
> To OP:
> the output of ' id && ps axfu && ls -laR /etc/nginx/ ' would be
> interesting.
>
> In general the Images in openshift are running with a random user id
> which it makes difficult to set proper file permissions :-/
> You can define some service accounts to be able to run as root, this
> should be used very carefully as in non PaaS environments ;-).
>
> Cheers
> Aleks
>
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